Midstakes Anonymous Poker: Exploits and Framework
Posted by Richard Gayler
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Really liked the coaching performance! I would love to her more about valuable imbalances to look for and how to counter in future videos.
Thanks! I will make a point to emphasize when populations I play against are imbalanced on particular textures in the future.
great stuff ..thx
Very interesting to hear about your poker journey as well. One qestion: if i was an up and comming player and you staked me, how would you make sure i worked on my PLO game to become as good as possible in the shortest amount of time?
This is a pretty complicated question. My players use a combination of training site content, coaching sessions discussing theory and HH/live play review from me and putting in volume in soft games with good loyalty programs.
Really enjoyed this
Hey Richard great first video. Clearly a high level thought process and am looking forward to your future videos. Specifically appreciate how often you explain your exploitative adjustments and your view on population tendencies.
Couple small feedback personal opinions since it's your first video:
I don't think you need to make an effort to make eye contact with the camera after talking points. Personally found it a bit distracting.
Can't read any of the HUD stats clearly, so when you are mentioning an action due to a players stats best to read the stat itself like you were with the players vpip and defend stats on table one when talking about your button opens.
Appreciate it. For eye contact, are you saying you'd prefer I didn't talk into the camera? Ok I'll vocalize relevant hud stats more explicitly in the future.
I second these points. I think he just means when you look into the camera, although there is clearly a conscious effort coming from you to do this, more than anything it takes our attention away from the tables to look at you at this moment, which is counter productive.
This was a great video. You explained your thought processes well.
Replayer reviews to me are much better than live play videos as you can take your time with spots and your though process.
Perhaps in addition to more replayer reviews, you could do some videos breaking down hands in monker and showing how you use solvers to study.
Thanks.
Thanks. I think it is best to leave solver analysis for the stronger theoretical coaches on this site. For now I'll stick to this format but will take your suggestions into consideration if I do another series.
Great video, couple questions:
4:20 QT94, no relevant suits, bad runouts, whats the plan if called? I find myself using these type of hands to protect my XC range, but maybe I'm giving up too many free cards to population that understabs?
18:30 how does shorty in BB incline you to open wider? solver rfi tighter when shorter (usually)
Thank you--
These spots are so player specific it's hard to give overarching advice. However on non straightening diamonds I feel that population overfolds so can barrel 40% with basically everything except traps unless trying to induce with top two vs villains that overstab. On straightening cards that Tx serves as a blocker on I'm happy to play as check. If villain isn't turning pair+blocker into bluffs on the turn then you can consider some extremely exploitative folds.
If BB plays a passive preflop strat as I anticipated this villain to then I'll open wider valuing hot cold equity hands. If they are aggro pre then yes open tighter because this stack size forces more of your opens to raise/fold.
How important is solver analysis to becoming a good plo player? Can you be successful at your stakes without it? In nlh some solver study to me seems necessary to keep up. Is that the case in plo? Thanks.
Definitely can be successful without it but it's mandatory to have some intuition about what is theoretically correct so that you can figure out how to deviate exploitatively. Otherwise it's just fumbling around.
Great Vid, very informative/good hand analysis. For the more in depth theory stuff i agree with a comment above that hand history replays allow for a slower pace and deeper level analysis, but I really liked the fast pace of this live play where you explained your thought process at a practical/real time pace and were able to cover lots of different spots. In terms of preferred stakes, the higher stakes always seem to be more purely entertaining, but its super beneficial to be able to see how you exploit harder at the lower stakes. Thanks again, looking forward to your next vid!
Hello Richard. Great first video.
One of the things that stood out to me, that I don't entirely understand the concept of, was on the 7833 turn with a8tq, 25:00, you said that because you have a higher density of 3's in your range than the villains, that you could bluff these spots with a high frequency? I would think that despite you having more 3's and given you don't have 77 88, (villain can rep this) and i don't think there's that many 73 or 83 comboes in bb defending range (3789?ish hands only, and surely if 389t ie two pair+straight draw would raise flop most of the time?) that it is hard to pull off against overpairs, no? Also, what 3's are you continuing with on this flop, akq3 would surely fold flop ? i guess a39t with suited ace are the main ones... I don't see the whole picture I never played with all the solvers so don't understand the concept there.
I guess my conceptual question is why having a higher density of a strong hand means you can bluff if that frequency is still very low?
Look forward to more videos in the future
It sounds like we are playing much different ranges both pre and post. If I had AKQ3 rainbow in this spot I am snap overcalling both pre and on the flop, not folding. With the less than pot sized raise pre and relative position on the recreational player at these stack sizes I'm definitely continuing with over half the deck, probably closer to 65-70%. For instance I am peeling J773$ss here. A large amount of my 3x also has sidecard equity that interacts with this flop texture so not too much of it is folding. You are correct some of my strong 3x raises.
For leading in this turn spot, it is a big exploit and is not intended to be balanced. From experience I find the CO typically underdefends vs the sizing I chose and the SB is likely to overdefend so I assume sticking this combo as bet for this sizing is much higher EV than playing as check, especially since after this turn our combo will rarely check down and win and performs terribly vs bet.
Do you really think that the CO will attempt to rep 77/88 given flop sizing after I lead here? I do not find my opponents to be that ambitious.
Yes it is my understanding that since a bluffing region's thickness is proportional to the number of value combos, having a smaller amount of value requires us to bluff less if we want to remain balanced.
In an anonymous environment having an existent value range and only a small amount of history with your opponents lets low frequency bets get more credit than they ought to.
What HUD stats are useful on Ignition? I also play there and almost never look at C-bet % since it's rare to play 100+ hands with someone, is this a mistake?
I find cbet % converges to a usable stat around 40-50 hands however I pick up much more from looking at showdowns and seeing what people are doing with their ranges so that I can infer what else they might be doing. Any information is valuable.
Simple stats like Vpip, pfr, 3b%, fv3b%, steal, f2steal, cbet, f2cbet are all you really need. Squeeze %, postflop barrel frequencies by street & OOP/IP just aren't really that useful. I wish I had flop x/r & overall x/r in my hud but it doesn't matter that much.
Richard Gayler you seem to be strong in exploitation in general. could you next time talk a bit about your thought process behind it..maybe something like: I noticed this villain hand go to showdown and therefore it probably means he is under/over [action], therefore I will under/over [action] vs him in the future. Or similarly, if you see some statistic trending strongly in a certain direction even if you haven't seen showdowns maybe how you would adjust and specifically what kinds of hands you would look to adjust with. Thanks in advance.
Will do.
Uncomfortable with eye contact even on a training video. ��. lol nerds.
Hi Richard, you mention opening AQ93ds CO, std open, agreed. You mention that the short BB inclines you to open even wider... Why?
Is it because the BTN/SB have to be aware of the shorty's squeezing size? I think this is something that I'm not doing properly.
Yea so you should be opening tighter if the BB is shorter & playing well. What I was getting at is a loose passive player playing so wide makes me open wider despite that. If he was correctly playing his BB I would be opening tighter.
I think what nittyoldman was talking about ties in what I was talking to you offline about regarding relationships between stats. I think it is something understood very poorly by people below 500PLO. For instance, high/cbet and how it can be tied to the check/fold stat.
There's a couple of theory videos on RIO, but I think seeing some live exploits would be worth it.
In the AQ93ds OTF you say you are stacking off with this hand anyway and thus choose to bet smaller. This reasoning can go both ways imho, one could just aswell argue that potting is better, because our hand has bad playability on future streets, so we want to shorten SPR and fold out as much of villain's range as possible.
Also stacking off with pretty naked TPTK at SPR 4.5 vs somoeone who you label as being passive seems kinda optimistic.
This is good stuff ! Like that u got your face there. Feel more connected to the way you show and teach. I also do like alot how you are trying to see opportunity in all situations and play smart, not just tight, but kind of combine smart solving and exploitative play.
Hope you stick around and teach all you got from how you think along side the programs and stats you use.. =)
Thank you !
On 6:50 you say that 6655ss plays poorly on 3 way all-ins. I think those small double pairs actually play quite nice if two player are expected to have high rundows or aces. Tjoughts?
In the sims I have run I see them typically be a 1-few % dog compared to what they need but if you ran some sims to the contrary I would be willing to change my mind.
The tables were too small. I could barely see how much you were betting.
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